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A dividend yield shows how much a company pays out in dividends each year in relation to its stock price.

Off-book trading refers to trades on an exchange platform that are completed separately from the order book.

n finance, to liquidate an asset is to sell it in return for money. A company can also be liquidated when it’s unable to pay its debts and all its contents are sold. 

Growth investors typically favour smaller businesses that have the potential to grow at a more competitive rate. 

A profit and loss statement (P&L) is a report used to gauge a trader’s profitability over a period of time.

A Hash Time Locked Contract (HTLC) is a form of payment that uses hash-locks and time-locks to complete the transaction.

A security is an umbrella term used for virtually any asset issued by a company or other common enterprise that can be bought and sold, but classification depends on the regulator in a country.

Although the name can mean a lot of different things, you’ve most likely interacted with or set up a fund of your own at some point, be it a money pool at work or a savings fund for a rainy…

You’ve probably heard the expression ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket’, a warning about investing too much in one particular area over others. An exchange-traded fund (ETF) takes that expression literally as it packages a number of securities…

Liquidity refers to the ease of converting assets into cash. High liquidity means there is an abundance of buyers and sellers for an asset, which makes it easy to complete trades. Low liquidity, or illiquid markets, have low numbers of…

Equity is quite a broad term and has a number of applications in finance. Primarily it refers to a shareholder’s size of ownership in a company and the value of the shares if they were sold off once any debts…

High-frequency trading (HFT) refers to a specialised form of trading that uses computer programs called bots to execute multiple trades in fractions of a second. The aim of HFT is to take advantage of very small price changes with high…